James Gettys is working at W3C on loan from Compaq Computer Corporation's Industry Standards and Consortia group. He is the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification, and work on the HTTP/NG project.

Jim Gettys joined W3C in July 1995 on secondment from Compaq's Industry Standards and Consortia Group. Jim is one of the authors of AF, a network transparent audio server system, and one of the principle authors of the X Window System. Jim's interests and experience span systems design and implementation, collaborative systems, teleconferencing and most areas of Web technology. He is interested in making the Web more usable in high latency and low bandwidth situations (home and mobile use).

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